Harvard Business School

Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University

Landmark

Board & CEO Advisor  -  Sustainable Enterprise Advocate

As a non-profit organization, Florida A&M University Foundation, Inc. is established with the specific mandate to serve as a custodian of contributions from the private sector, alumni, friends, and industry. The Foundation receives, invests and administers funds. In addition, the Foundation acts as a trustee and exercises in general the powers of a not-for-profit organization under the laws of Florida.

FAMU Foundation

Board Member

Organizational change, leadership development, and transformation consultant to C-suite teams and Boards of Directors. 

Process consultant and team coach who supports alignment around values and sustainably high performance through systems thinking, engagement of diverse perspectives, and people-first leadership.

Executive search consultant and talent advisor for board, C-suite and senior leadership roles across several sectors.

Russell Reynolds Associates

Executive Director

After 8+ years in early stage ventures, getting married, and supporting the sale of a business, I took extended time off to consider the next stage of my career. 

Advised entrepreneurs, took coding classes, researched ideas for new ventures, attended meditation retreats to reflect on my dharma, trekked with gorillas in Rwanda, and completed safari in Tanzania, among other projects.

Career Break

Personal goal pursuit

Applying AI/Machine Learning and other data science techniques to help consumers find the best choices for insurance (sold business to Genstar-backed All Web Leads).

Recruited by unit CEO as the P&L leader for the direct acquisition / growth marketing business, responsible for one of the main consumer brands and the product that was the key profit driver of the $110M+ business. Member of the Senior Leadership Team.

Bankrate

GM and VP, Consumer Acquisition - InsuranceQuotes business unit

Recruited by CEO-Founder of SHYFT Analytics (acquired by Medidata Solutions) to advise on strategic issues.

Growth equity-backed SaaS firm with a software and consulting platform for integration and analysis of pharmaceutical companies’ commercial data to accelerate performance of sales and marketing activities. 

Advised the CEO on strategic and operational issues, including the company's evolution from a services business to a SaaS business.

SHYFT Analytics

Executive-in-Residence, SHYFT Analytics

Led several functions at Activate Networks (later acq. by Decision Resources Group), a data science SaaS platform focused on accelerating revenue growth and organizational agility in multiple sectors. 

Core executive team member, driving strategic partnership efforts, fundraising, Marketing, and Product Management.

*Also served as Interim CFO and Treasurer from 2012-2013.

Decision Resources Group

SVP, Marketing and Business Development, Activate Networks

Taught the capstone Strategy course to undergraduate and graduate students at the Sawyer School of Business.

Suffolk University

Adjunct Instructor

Early-stage Instagram-like platform for families to capture and share travel experiences through photos and written memories online and in print form.  Built service in a hybrid AWS cloud environment before that was a term; company exited in 2011. 

Officially served as CFO while also managing partnerships, sales, onsite product deployments, product, engineering, marketing, and customer service at different times during tenure.

Panraven

CFO and President

Strategy and operations consulting for Technology, Media & Telecommunications clients. Also helped launch and scale an India-based consulting capability while leading that group's healthcare consulting team.

Deloitte Consulting

Manager, Consulting

New venture inside IBM, combining IBM’s technology and services with data and software from third parties in the Life Sciences and Healthcare space. Business grew to $1B in revenue over a ~3-year period.

IBM Corporation

Worldwide Marketing Manager

Assisted on business plan development for an early StubHub-like company.

Flagship Pioneering

Consultant, NewCoGen Ventures

Strategy and operations consulting firm. My primary focus during the summer was a full-line semiconductor design and manufacturing company seeking to navigate the competitive threats and opportunities of new fabrication materials, fabless companies, telematics, and mobile phones. Received offer for full-time role at end of internship.

Booz Allen Hamilton

Strategy Consulting Intern

Firm focused on middle market commercial debt financing for leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, and expansion capital. 

My portfolio included companies across multiple industries: supermarket chains, building materials producers, precision manufacturing firms, and companies in the health care sector, to name a few.

Cecyl Hobbs